George The Tech’s Performer Friendly Podcast

Published on Feb 4, 2014 Toronto, ON, Canada voice actor Mike Pongracz is our special guess this week. Dan reminds you to not over think a home studio, and George shares sage advice on choosing audio cables.

Streamed live on Jan 27, 2014 Join Dan and George at 9 Eastern Time! If you'd like to be directly in the  hangout, let us know now, we have room for 4 more participants. Otherwise, join us in the usual chatroom and watch live (Sort of ) on You Tube! Google hangout guests included: Ann Richardson Gene Dixon Scott Chambers Karyn O'Bryant Hosts: George Whittam Dan Lenard George logs in from the edge...

Published on Jan 20, 2014 Kelly Passinault shares HUGELY helpful info about casting VO, Dan's experiences in Vegas with Marice Tobias, and Joe Cipriano, George on phone patches. Dan's tip of the week: Vegas! Dan was recently at Maurice tobias' workshop in Las VegasDan has some great footage, including some of Joe Cipriano reading from his new book.  Visit Dan at HomeVoiceOverStudio.com/ Or follow...

Published on Jan 14, 2014 The lovely Larissa Gallagher is in studio with George for this episode. Dan's Tip of the Week is on iOS recording devices, and George shares his thoughts on IPDTL. George fills us in on IPDTL, the Chrome browser extension that facilitates a live voiceover session. It's free, and the sound quality is nearly as good as Source Connect. Our guest Larissa shares her experience...

Published on Jan 7, 2014 Bob Bergen, voice of Porky Pig and many other characters, commercials, radio imaging, and more is our guest.

Published on Dec 30, 2013 Dan and George celebrate another year of edu-tainment EWABS style. Share some of our favorite moments of 2013. Enjoy some of our favorite interviews this year including Rick Wasserman Anthony Mendes, John Taylor, David Kaye, and more. Visit Dan at HomeVoiceOverStudio.com/ Or follow Dan's Twitter: @HomStudioMan Relive many of the valuable lessons taught to us by: Paul Pape...

Streamed live on Dec 23, 2013 Happy Holidays! George joins us from his parent's house in Pennsylvania. George's parents own both a pipe organ, and a player piano. We get a demonstration of the player piano later in the show. Unfortunately due to technical difficulties, an audio loop back interferes with a portion of the show after, but gets corrected around 38:00  minutes into the show. Regular ch...

Streamed live on Dec 16, 2013 Rob shares his legal wisdom and end of the year tax tips. George joins us later in the program, special thanks to Anthony Gettig for co-hosting this episode. Dan's Tip Of The Week: Processing. Do you need it? How much is too much? Visit Dan at HomeVoiceOverStudio.com/ Or follow Dan's Twitter: @HomStudioMan Dan demonstrates the new EWABS Clicker, only $5. Order yours t...

Published on Dec 9, 2013 Karen Souer of karensouer.com is our guest, Dan and George talk studio acoustics, and we share some client stories from the past week. Dan and George explain how easy it is to get into our live viewer chat room. George shows off a specialty tool he recently acquired, a power nailer. Dan shares a few recent mustache themed items he's received. The guys share some recent exp...

Published on Dec 2, 2013 A wonderful interview with Wes Dooley at his AEA headquarters in Pasadena, CA, George talks USB, and Dan shares his thoughts on mics for the traveling VO. George's Tech Tidbits: USB 2 vs. 3. It's all about speed, but how much do you need? Dan shows us the happy Hanukkah glasses his son Louis sent from school this year. The guys explain that this week's guest Wes Dooley, an...

Streamed live on Nov 25, 2013 EWABS AUDIO MASTERS ROUNDTABLE 11/25/13 This is the RAW YOUTUBE LIVE feed, warts and all. I will upload the Ustream version as well. Our Quarterly Audio Masters Roundtable included guests:  Uncle Roy Yokelson  Cliff Zellman  Juan Carlos Bagnell  Mike Varella. Paul Pape also joins us in the chat room to contribute. Roundtable topics, and discussions included: Noise flo...

Published on Nov 18, 2013 What a unique opportunity we had this episode! Joe Cipriano came on to talk about his book "Living On Air" and had to break away for a promo VO job, but he took us with him into the booth and we got to experience the entire session from start to finish. Soooo cool! Plus, George features a Whittam's World on EQ and Dan and George discuss Mac for VO. The guys chat with Joe...

Published on Nov 11, 2013 SoundStreak Demo episode with Yoni Slotwiner answering the chat room questions, plus Dan on Mic selection for VO.

Published on Nov 4, 2013 Fred Melamed gives us 40 minutes of his time to share his experiences and wisdom as a screen and voice actor. Dan fills us in on the current happenings at World Voices, including voice over coaching, and demo production. See this months newsletter for more. George's Tech Tidbits: George shares this weeks "Whittam's World." George's bi-weekly vlog, This Week: Reducing your...

Published on Oct 28, 2013 Hangout Guests Included: Diane Meritt Gene Dixon  Jason Huggins Lee Pinney Pat Sweeny Rosemary Benson Chris Thom Special Guest: Ella Whittam. Happy Halloween Ella! Visit George at VOStudioTech.com Or follow George's Twitter: @EWABS_Show Special thanks to our newest sponsor: Edge Studios, full service voice over production, education, and resources. http://www.edgestudio.c...

Published on Oct 21, 2013 Maurice LaMarche joined us for a wonderful 40 minute interview! Chris Currier shows us the Neumann TLM 107 at the 135th AES Show in NYC. George shows us some footage of his bike trek in New York. George's Tech Tidbits: Audio Codecs; ISDN, or ?  Source Connect, SoundsStreak, Lucy live, Skype,... Visit George at VOStudioTech.com Or follow George's Twitter: @EWABS_Show Speci...

Published on Oct 7, 2013 The only voice actor we know with a performing pig living in her house, Debi Derryberry had us entertained from start to finish with her stories and experiences as a world-traveling voice actor. Dan share video he collected from FaffCon 6, and George shared his coverage from the Don LaFontaine Poker Classic. Thanks to Harlan Hogan, and Voice Over Essentials. voiceoveressen...

Published on September 30, 2013 1 Google Hangout!

Published on Sep 16, 2013 Graeme Judd is our guest this week, George: USB vs Firewire, Dan's TOTW "Broadcast Quality" George's Tech Tid Bits: Firewire vs. USB. George relates his recent experiences with FireWire on Mac devices, and tells us how the Lexicon Alpha may solve some of these problems. Lots of other great information regarding Firewire, and USB. Visit George at VOStudioTech.com Or follow...

Published on Sep 24, 2013 Seth's (more talented) sister Rachael MacFarlane joined us for this blast of an episode. (George obviously knows the MacFarlanes quite well, which makes for an interesting interview you won't want to miss). Georges Tech Tid Bits: Soundproofing. Should you sound proof? George gives us some practicality on the subject. Visit George at VOStudioTech.com Or follow George's Twi...

Published on Sep 9, 2013 Tara Platt & Yuri Lowenthal are our guests. Dan's Tip of the Week is on Rumble. George speaks about when it's time to upgrade your home studio. The guys have been working steadily on voice over virtual, and the open house went well Saturday night from Anne Ganguzza's house. George's Tech Tid Bits: Time to consider a professional studio upgrade?  George gives us some things...

Published on Aug 27, 2013 John Taylor, Karyn O'Bryant, Katherine Curriden, Anthony Gettig join us for a fun discussion on watermarking, traveling, a recap of the DLF Poker Classic, and much more! George tells us about his recent affiliation with edge studio. Congratulations George! https://www.edgestudio.com/press-rele... Dan tells us about his recent meeting with David, and Stephanie Ciccarelli o...

Published on Aug 19, 2013 David Kaye was our guest, and we had a great time. George talks about audio interfaces, and Dan's Tip of the Week is Audio Formats. Plus a viewer question with sound clip, and even more! George's Tech This Week: Audio Interfaces What an audio interface does. Some requirements we should be looking for. George and Dan show us a few, including:  ART USB Dual Pre Focusrite iT...

Published on Aug 12, 2013 Casting Director, Voice Director, and technology blogger Juan Carlos Bagnell, AKA "Some Audio Guy" is our guest. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1555985/   https://www.facebook.com/jcbagnell http://someaudioguy.blogspot.com/   George returns from his recent business trip to New York. Dan shows us his new display case for his antique microphones. George's Tech Tidbits: Neumann...

Published on Aug 6, 2013 Listen to Marc Graue "Fix it in the mix" as he shares his pearls of wisdom on the VO industry, how he started his own commercial studio, and a few dirty jokes for good measure. We also visit with our friend Marc Cashman to see his amazing home studio built by the late Mike Sommer. Dan recounts an interesting story of being recognized while visiting California recently. The...